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Crow Butte uranium mine’s license renewal protested
The Chadron Record By GEORGE LEDBETTER, Record Editor Monday, October 13, 2008 Opponents of the Crow Butte Resources uranium mine near Crawford used a two-day hearing in Chadron last week to try and convince a panel of Nuclear Regulatory Commission judges that the mine’s operation poses a danger to area water supplies, and may be causing significant health effects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation The 13 individuals and groups seeking to have operations of the In Situ Leach (ISL) mine suspended face a significant hurdle, however, as they first must convince the panel that they have the right to take part in the license renewal proceedings……………………….The mine is owned by Cameco Corp., a Canadian-owned company that is the world’s largest uranium producer, and ships its yellowcake to Canada for use in nuclear electric generation plants…………………………Opponents of the license renewal include several of the same people and groups who are seeking to block the mine’s expansion. Among those are the Western Nebraska Resources Council, the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Owe Aku/Bring Back the Way, a Lakota Indian cultural group, Tom Cook of Chadron, Debra White Plume of Pine Ridge, S.D., and other individuals from South Dakota and Nebraska.The Oglala Sioux Treaty Council, a group separate from the tribal government, is also seeking to intervene in the license renewal.
Opposition to the mine is based in large part on the allegation that the water used in mining, which is drawn from the shallow Chadron formation, could contaminate deeper underground aquifers that provide water for the reservation, 30 some miles northwest of the mine. Further threats are posed by surface water drainage into the White River, which flows from the Crawford area to the reservation, they contend.
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Procedural problems may force cancellation of nuclear tender
Procedural problems may force cancellation of nuclear tender
TODAY’S ZAMAN 14 Oct 08 A tender for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, held on Sept. 25, may be cancelled due to its failure to meet technical criteria.
The fact that there was only one bidder in the tender, analysts say, may lead to its cancellation because it fell short of creating a competitive environment.The only bidder for the tender was the Park Teknik consortium, set up by the Russian AtomStroyExport and Inter RAO UES and the Turkish Ciner Group.
At a time when the construction of a nuclear power plant has been strongly protested by some groups, only receiving one bid for the tender has complicated things for the government……………..If the Russian company is awarded the contract, Russian interests in the generation of Turkey’s electricity will rise from 35 percent to 55 percent. Turkey fulfills 60 percent of its natural gas needs from Russia, and it does not want to get into a similar situation with power generation………………………….Russia already controls about 25 percent of the world market for nuclear energy,
Procedural problems may force cancellation of nuclear tender
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Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in Canada: | The Dominion
Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in CanadaDavid Parker The Dominion September 8th, 2008.HALIFAX – In September of 2007, the United Nations adopted the non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Four high profile countries notably voted against the declaration – namely Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.[1] All four countries are states that were established by white settlers on indigenous lands, and all four are currently in disputes with indigenous peoples over land and sovereignty.The Canadian state, built on the theft and occupation of indigenous lands, continues to benefit from its unjustly acquired assets…………………………Recent cases of indigenous protest in Ontario have been in opposition to government authorized resource extraction on native lands. Despite legitimate demands for sovereignty and decision-making power over their traditional lands, native protesters have been incarcerated:
Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in Canada: | The Dominion
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Solar may give 25pc of power by 2050 – Local News – News – General – The Canberra Times
Solar may give 25pc of power by 2050
The Canberra Times BY ROSSLYN BEEBY 14 Oct 08 Solar thermal energy could provide 25 per cent of Australia’s power by 2050 if there is a commitment to build one solar power station a year, a leading CSIRO scientist says.The manager of CSIRO’s renewable energy projects, Wes Stein, told a public meeting in Canberra last night he had already discussed this future possibility with solar mirror manufacturers.
”One solar power station a year: that sort of scale would not scare them. This is technology that likes to be built big,” he said.
Delivering the sixth annual Malcolm McIntosh memorial lecture, Mr Stein said Australia should aim to play a leading global role in developing next-generation energy technologies and was well placed to be a large-scale exporter of solar energy and expertise.
But greater support for research and development was needed…………………………………..
Mr Stein said solar thermal energy could be collected, stored as synthetic natural gas (syngas) and ”transported around the world”, creating lucrative export markets for Australia.
Farmers suffering the impacts of climate change could switch from crops to earning income from ”farming the sun”.
Solar may give 25pc of power by 2050 – Local News – News – General – The Canberra Times
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Damning report on Aboriginal scheme – National – smh.com.au
Damning report on Aboriginal scheme
Sydney Morning Herald Stephanie Peatling and Joel Gibson
October 14, 2008THE radical intervention into remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory has “fractured” the relationship between governments and indigenous people and led to an even greater sense of betrayal and misery among many people, an independent panel has found.
The board commissioned by the Federal Government to review the intervention after 12 months found it had not led to anyone being arrested for child sexual abuse – the grounds on which the previous government justified the intervention………………………….The board called for the intervention’s exemption from the Racial Discrimination Act to be removed and supported the reinstatement of the permit system for entry to lands…………………………………..
Pat Turner, of the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory, said she hoped the Government would take the report seriously and amend its approach.
She applauded its recommendations to compensate Aboriginal landowners on just terms for compulsory leases over their land and for its call for the intervention to be subject to the Racial Discrimination Act.
But Ms Turner, who has called the intervention a Trojan horse designed to seize Aboriginal land,
Damning report on Aboriginal scheme – National – smh.com.au
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Bangkok Post | General news | Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Bangkok Post ACHARA ASHAYAGACHAT 12 Oct 08BRUSSELS : The European Union (EU) has advised the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to go for cheaper and less risky renewable energy rather than nuclear power.
Ferran Tarradellas Espuny, a spokesman for the Energy Commissioner, said that Europe was serious about developing renewable energy resources and added that within a decade European companies would be world leaders in the field……………………………………..
He said Europe was aiming to reduce its energy consumption by 20% by 2020, meaning it had to improve efficiency, which would help reduce 20% of the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by the same deadline.
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The spokesman said the EU has not actively encouraged other countries to use nuclear power, although some EU members such as France are key players in that area.
The EU instead suggested that developing solar and wind energy would be a niche for European corporations, and it has no safety risks, said Mr Espuny………………………………Greenpeace Thailand is campaigning for new Energy Minister Wannarat Charnveerakul to consider implementing effective energy-saving measures.
Bangkok Post | General news | Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Bangkok Post | General news | Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Bangkok Post ACHARA ASHAYAGACHAT 12 Oct 08BRUSSELS : The European Union (EU) has advised the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to go for cheaper and less risky renewable energy rather than nuclear power.
Ferran Tarradellas Espuny, a spokesman for the Energy Commissioner, said that Europe was serious about developing renewable energy resources and added that within a decade European companies would be world leaders in the field……………………………………..
He said Europe was aiming to reduce its energy consumption by 20% by 2020, meaning it had to improve efficiency, which would help reduce 20% of the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by the same deadline.
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The spokesman said the EU has not actively encouraged other countries to use nuclear power, although some EU members such as France are key players in that area.
The EU instead suggested that developing solar and wind energy would be a niche for European corporations, and it has no safety risks, said Mr Espuny………………………………Greenpeace Thailand is campaigning for new Energy Minister Wannarat Charnveerakul to consider implementing effective energy-saving measures.
Bangkok Post | General news | Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Britain’s nuclear weapons factory ‘nearly overwhelmed’ by flood – Telegraph
Britain’s nuclear weapons factory ‘nearly overwhelmed’ by flood
Telegraph.co.uk 12 Oct 08 Alarm systems at Britain’s nuclear weapons factory were put out of action for 10 days by last summer’s floods, leaving tens of thousands of people without warning in the event of a nuclear accident.The floods disabled key radiation alarm systems, designed to detect an impending nuclear accident at the Atomic Weapons Establishment site at Burghfield, in Berkshire, according to secret documents seen by Channel 4 News.
Parts of the factory came “within 2 to 3 hours” of being overwhelmed by the floods – which could have led to the release of potentially radioactive contaminated water.
A nuclear incident at Burghfield could result in the release of a radioactive cloud that would require the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding area, including the nearby large conurbation of Reading.
Burghfield is where Britain’s Trident nuclear warheads are dismantled and reassembled for maintenance. According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act nearly all the buildings in the key nuclear Assembly Area were inundated by floodwater on July 20th last year when torrential rain caused chaos across much of southern England.
As a result of the flooding, all live nuclear work on warheads was stopped for nine months. Yet defence ministers told MPs there had been only “minor disruption”…………………………… Details of the extent of the flooding were deliberately kept from the public and local authorities. Anxious to protect the company’s reputation, the documents note approvingly that “it was a prudent step to limit disclosure of information surrounding the degree of impact suffered – particularly at Burghfield.”
Britain’s nuclear weapons factory ‘nearly overwhelmed’ by flood – Telegraph
Nuclear power project is fraught with «ordeals», expert says | BELARUS NEWS
Nuclear power project is fraught with «ordeals», expert says
naviny.by 11/10/08 The Belarusian government’s plans to build a nuclear power plant are fraught with “multiple troubles and ordeals for the people,” Belarusian expert Heorhiy Lepin said at an international conference in Vilnius on October 9.
He described nuclear energy programs as “the most costly and the most hazardous of all power generation technologies.” “This danger is connected not only with the possibility of accidents: a nuclear reactor pollutes the environment during its routine operation,” Dr. Lepin said.
The professor stressed that nuclear power projects were inefficient because of high construction costs and the high cost of power generation. Nuclear fuel currently costs nearly 20 times as much as it did in 2000, he said, describing the disposal of nuclear waste as a “very expensive and very dangerous problem.”………………………..British professor Christopher Busby, who studies the effects of low-dose radiation on health, warned that the operation of a nuclear power plant would lead to a higher child mortality rate in Belarus.
Nuclear power project is fraught with «ordeals», expert says | BELARUS NEWS
North Korea to resume disabling atom sites – International Herald Tribune
North Korea to resume disabling atom sites
:International Herald Tribune October 12, 2008 North Korea welcomed its removal Sunday from Washington’s terrorism blacklist and said it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities, allowing U.S. and United Nations monitors back into its main nuclear complex.
The United States announced Saturday that it had removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. In return, North Korea said Sunday that it would resume disabling a plutonium plant and other key facilities at its nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, and allow some inspections to verify the process.
North Korea to resume disabling atom sites – International Herald Tribune
Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran | David Owen – Times Online
Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran –
The Sunday TimesOctober 12, 2008″ Some key decision makers in Israel fear that unless they attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in the next few months, while George W Bush is still president, there will not be another period when they can rely on the United States as being anywhere near as supportive in the aftermath of a unilateral attack…………………………………….. Following an Israeli attack and Iranian countermeasures, the American military would be bound to follow Bush’s orders. The president-designate or, if before the election, the two candidates, would be wary of criticising him. It is imperative that voices are raised in America and Europe to warn Israel off unilateral action against Iran.
Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran | David Owen – Times Online
Costly nuclear power isn’t the answer – St. Petersburg Times
Costly nuclear power isn’t the answer
tampabay.com October 13, 2008Costly nuclear power won’t take us to the future ……………..In addition to the well-known health, safety and security risks of nuclear power, constructing new nuclear plants makes no economic sense. Our economic crisis stems, in part, from our continuing to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from China that we give to the Middle East for oil. Building a nuclear power plant is the most capital-intensive means of producing energy, and employs the fewest workers.
We are in an economic crisis requiring huge infusions of capital to keep our country and perhaps the world from economic collapse, and there are far less capital-intensive means of producing energy, such as solar and wind generating units, which can be manufactured and operated on a vastly smaller scale, and decentralized, thereby creating many times the number of American jobs in our troubled economy, for the same investment.
The power companies are promoting nuclear power because their rates (and their profits) are based upon a percentage of their capital investment — the higher the capital investment, the higher profit for the power company………………21st century technologies are ready to meet our energy needs. Rather than return to the failed energy policies of the 1970s, we can and must do better. Our presidential candidates and the next Congress need to take the steps necessary to effectively address our climate and economic crises, and move us quickly to the nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future Americans want and deserve.
Costly nuclear power isn’t the answer – St. Petersburg Times
Green Left – Garnaut final report met with protest
Garnaut final report met with protest
Green Left Kamala Emanuel10 October 2008Professor Ross Garnaut delivered his final report on impacts of — and responses to — climate change to Australian federal and state governments on September 30.In the previous week, a series of protest actions was held around the country to highlight the need for emergency action on climate change………………………………… The report explains that failure to act could be catastrophic — but recommends soft targets………………………….. The report explains that failure to act could be catastrophic — but recommends soft targets.
Environmental Capital – WSJ.com : Financial Fallout: Market Tumbles Shake Nuclear Clean-Up Funds
October 10, 2008, Financial Fallout: Market Tumbles Shake Nuclear Clean-Up Funds
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL by Keith Johnson 10 Oct 08 The Wall Street meltdown is making it tougher to build new nuclear power plants, but it’s doing more than that. It could also make it tougher to tear down the existing ones.
The stock market’s tumble is cracking the piggy bank designed to safely mothball Vermont’s Yankee nuclear power plant when the plant is evenutally shut down, notes the Boston Globe. Since the spring, the so-called “decommissioning fund” for the Entergy plant, which will pay to dismantle and safely entomb nuclear reactors when they are shut down, has lost about $40 million, or 10% of its value……………………..ll nuclear plants are required to have a fund set aside to pay for their eventual clean-up. Since nuclear plants have such a long operating life, and clean-up takes even longer, most rely on long-term investments to meet funding requirements. How much does decomissioning cost? No one really knows. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission figures it should cost between $280 million and $612 million per reactor—or a maximum pricetag of about $63 billion for America’s 104 nuclear reactors. Then again, Britain estimates the total clean-up bill for its 19 nuclear reactors at $165 billion,………………ll nuclear plants are required to have a fund set aside to pay for their eventual clean-up. Since nuclear plants have such a long operating life, and clean-up takes even longer, most rely on long-term investments to meet funding requirements. How much does decomissioning cost? No one really knows. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission figures it should cost between $280 million and $612 million per reactor—or a maximum pricetag of about $63 billion for America’s 104 nuclear reactors. Then again, Britain estimates the total clean-up bill for its 19 nuclear reactors at $165 billion,
Environmental Capital – WSJ.com : Financial Fallout: Market Tumbles Shake Nuclear Clean-Up Funds
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Eric Margolis: The White House’s Final Folly
The White House’s Final Folly
THE HUFFINGTON POST Eric Margolis October 10, 2008 After invading Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, turning the Muslim world against America, alienating our allies, authoring the fiasco in Georgia, and presiding over the meltdown of Wall Street and America’s banks, it would seem impossible the Bush administration could produce another epic disaster. But it has.In its final days in office, the White House has engineered an historic nuclear deal with India that Congress, unaware of the import, approved last week………………………………Far from a triumph, this short-sighted strategic agreement with India could very well come back to haunt America. Many Indians feel the same way: furious debate over the nuclear deal almost brought down the coalition government of India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh and barely scraped by India’s parliament.
The agreement will now allow the U.S. to sell nuclear fuel, reactors and technology to India, supposedly for `peaceful energy use.’……………….President Bush’s `foreign policy triumph’ means that U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel will now keep India’s civilian reactors running, allowing Delhi to divert precious nuclear fuel to its weapons program.
This deal negates thirty years of US efforts to prevent the spread and development of nuclear weapons…………………..The gates have also been opened to U.S. arms exporters to sell state of the art military equipment to India, and to major heavy equipment suppliers like General Electric………………………..
Selling India nuclear fuel and technology that could one day threaten US national security is dangerous and counter-productive. It’s also folly driven by short-term financial greed that blinds the deal’s proponents to the nation’s security.
The first target of India’s ICBM’s will be Washington. As Marx so rightly observed, the capitalists will sell the rope with which to hang them.
Eric Margolis: The White House’s Final Folly
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